MooTools

After almost a year in development, the MooTools team announced the release of version 1.3 with major notable enhancements. Slick Selector Engine The biggest update is the inclusion of the new Slick standalone selector engine. The engine was developed by Thomas Aylott, Fabio Costa and Valerio Proietti with accuracy and portability in mind, allowing the Read the rest…

Scato Eggen, in honor of Towel Day in the Netherlands, has released an open source framework called towel.js. towel.js is an extension for Mootools, designed to make event-based code easier to write and even more important: easier to read. At the hart of towel.js is a modular helper system called towel, including two helpers called Read the rest…

The first beta of MooTools 1.3 has become available. The biggest feature is their new CSS selector engine. They aren’t using Sizzle like some of the other boys, but instead have become Slick: Slick is our new, shiny, super fast, exhaustively tested, pure-javascript selector engine. There will probably be a dedicated Slick post in the Read the rest…

Jacky Nguyen was behind a new website ExpatLiving from Singapore, and as he built out a nice view for iPhone and mobile Webkit folks, he implemented MooTouch. It is still in an early stage, and is asking for input: MooTouch is a cutting-edge JavaScript framework built on top of MooTools that truly brings the experiences Read the rest…

Bastian Allgeier has developed a beautiful, native looking web application called ZooTool. Zootool is a visual bookmark tool for images, videos, documents and links. It is completely based on Mootools, even though it looks more like a Cappuccino app! Play with it. Enjoy it.

Plugins are a fact of life when it comes to JavaScript libraries. These user-contributed code snippets provide tremendous features & functionality and save developers time by not having to re-invent the wheel. The hard part, though, is trying to filter out which ones are actually useful and compatible with your current library. Finding the right Read the rest…

This is in the crazy but fun category, so I had to post this on a Friday. Toki Woki Scroll Clock: Amazing what folks do with div overflows :) All in a few lines of MooTools-used-JS: < View plain text > javascript var h1, h2, m1, m2, s1, s2; window.addEvent(‘domready’, function() { h1=new Read the rest…

A change in Firefox 3.6 has prompted a call to upgrade from the MooTools team. Earlier versions of the library used the document.getBoxObjectFor method for browser detection but as of Firefox 3.6, that method has been deprecated and no longer available: The reason we stress the upgrade to MooTools 1.2.4 and MooTools 1.1.2 is the Read the rest…

Aaron Newton of MooTools fame is now at Cloudera, the awesome Hadoop startup, and has posted about the rich Cloudera Desktop project he has been working on. In the post he discusses the implementation and how it uses new features in the new MooTools 1.2.4 release such as: MooTools Depender MooTools ships with a dependency Read the rest…

Zohaib Sibt-e-Hassan has created a Mootools based mouse gesture library Moousture that is based on simplicity: A probe, which probes the pointing device. Currently there is a Moousture.MouseProbe (P.S. I am planning to test it on iPhone and build any seprate probe for that). A monitor, which tests the stability of probed device on given intervals Read the rest…

Normally when you see a title like jQuery vs. MooTools you get ready for the flame bait. You would expect it even more so if you found out that someone from one of the frameworks wrote the post! Well, Aaron Newton did just that, and I think he did a very good job at trying Read the rest…

We’ve posted before about Harald Kirschner’s excellent MooTools plugin FancyUpload which provides extensive functionality for handling file uploads. His newest update, FancyUpload v3.0, is a complete rewrite and includes a wealth of new features: The API with, separated uploader and file classes, allows an easy implementation in all kind of interfaces Events are dispatched for Read the rest…

The MooTools team has been busy over the last week. Last Thursday they released MooTools 1.2.2: MooTools 1.2.2 is a mainly a bug fix release but it also includes an almost entirely new Class.js. The reasoning behind this is that the old Class.js didn’t play nicely with some advanced usages of this.parent() present in the Read the rest…

Joining the world’s collection of Growl-related libraries is Notimoo, a beautiful Growl implementation for MooTools. It’s a little more sophisticated than most of the Growl ports as it supports persistence messages (that require a user’s click to clear and scroll into view) and allows you to configure where on the screen the messages appear: < Read the rest…

If you’re a coder who likes to blog a lot, you know the value of a good code syntax highlighter. It helps to draw attention to your code snippets and sets them in a context easily identifiable to anyone who has used a code editor. José Prado came up with a MooTools-powered extension called Lighter.js Read the rest…

Over at devthought, Guillermo Ranch has rewritten his clone of Facebook’s “TextboxList” component: It’s been some time since TextboxList got some attention. It is undoubtedly one of the my most popular JavaScript projects, along with the famous Fancy Menu (MorphList) and its slideshow sibling, BarackSlideshow. TextboxList has been rewritten from scratch, and it’s more solid Read the rest…